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...Motorola TV Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV), another worthy competitor for TV dramatic honors, is handsomely produced, well-cast and ambitiously directed. The TV Hour's only apparent handicap is a lack of good scripts. Last week's Brandenburg Gate dealt familiarly with the cold war in beleaguered Berlin, and the plot leaned heavily on devices borrowed from Carol Reed films and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Jack Palance was effective as the present-day Sydney Carton who gives his life to free Maria Riva's husband from a Communist death...
...Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) had a 20-year run on radio, and should be notably successful on TV. As before, Dr. I.Q. (Jay Owen) fires his questions from a theater stage while his four assistants track down contestants in the audience ("I have a lady in the balcony, Doctor!"). The quiz payoff is made in silver dollars, and the questions are as hard as ever ("Name the states that border on the Mississippi River"). With its dramatic values considerably heightened by television, Dr. I.Q. is not likely to remain unsponsored for long...
United States Steel Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV) comes to TV loaded with talent. Sponsored by U.S. Steel, produced by the Theatre Guild, directed by Alex Segal (who established his reputation with Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and last year's Celanese Theater), the Steel Hour's first two shows have had competent acting, adult themes and an intellectual daring not common in television. The first play, P.O.W., dealt convincingly with a group of U.S. ex-prisoners returned from Korea to an Army hospital. The second, based on a 1941 Broadway play by Sophie Treadwell. examined racial...
Religion in American Life (Fri. 11:15 p.m., ABC; Sun. 1:15 p.m., ABC-TV). With President Eisenhower, Rosalind Russell, Sam Goldwyn...
Comeback Story (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV) is a tearjerker that shakes the mothballs from the once famous and tells why and how they slipped into obscurity. It is remarkably similar to Ralph Edwards' NBC weeper, This Is Your Life. Comedian George Jessel, ABC's new man-of-all-work, tells the story in his best toastmaster style as the subject under scrutiny squirms alongside. For the premiere, Jessel took former Child Star Bobby Breen in hand, told how he climbed from cold-water flats to Hollywood fame, then became a has-been at 13, when...